Good morning kids. Well, the big story is of course the aftermath of yesterday's horrific air disaster over Reagan National and the Potomac in DC. As an aside, can anyone who writes (that is manipulates a crayon) TV news stop using the adjective tragic whenever a disaster like this strikes. Either that or provide an example of a hilarious airplane crash.
In any case, the daily soap opera (as the late great Rush Limbaugh called it) is shifting because Donald Trump is now president and because he dared use the incident to call out the evil insanity of DEI. Bad move? Wrong place and time? As I've pondered this, I've come to the conclusion that NO, it wasn't. Aside from the fact that he did not place the sole blame on DEI for what happened. Considering the actions of the Obama/Sponge Brain-Shits-Pants junta to specifically in the case of the FAA declare that too many air traffic controllers were white and that was intolerable. So towers were understaffed because there just weren't any qualified non-white male heterosexual normal ones available. Regardless of whether that played any part in what happened Wednesday night, all one has to do is stand in the smoldering ruins of what once the beautiful community of Pacific Palisades to see what DEI, and all its attendant ideologies, beliefs and pathologies have wrought.
No doubt the black boxes on the airliner and the helicopter will be recovered and we'll at least have a record of both the communications of the aircrew as well as how the ships were behaving mechanically and aerodynamically at the time of impact. If we have honest, unbiased, true independent investigators who won't be intimidated or threatened by the usual political actors in the administrative state and politicians themselves, then we will indeed get to the bottom of this. And if either the air traffic controllers, or the blackhawk and airliner pilots displayed any sort of ineptness not only here but certainly in the past, then our worst fears and Donald Trump's assertions will be borne out.
The raging disgusting hypocrisy of the Left in both blaming Trump for what happened and in supposedly politicizing the tragedy is vomit inducing considering the fact that every timeshare is a mass shooting somewhere, these people are shoving each other aside to see who gets to be first to stand on top of the still warm bodies of the victims to shriek about the evils of the Second Amendment.
Moving ahead. . . I'm no great fan of Matthew Continetti, mostly because of his familial ties to Bill Kristol which over the years have turned more political as we've seen in his writings, so I have avoided him entirely for many years now. And yet he does have some very salient observations with this essay. And it ties in directly with Trump's referencing DEI and his and our crusade to eradicate wokeism:
The welfare state Trump seeks to reform is a misshapen layer cake of liberal ambitions. The rusted instruments of FDR's New Deal, such as unemployment insurance and Social Security, sit at the bottom. LBJ's Great Society—Medicare and Medicaid and the civil rights apparatus—is in the middle. It's the top layer—the woke revolution—that is the least appetizing. Liberalism's radical turn began in Barack Obama's second term. The MeToo movement and anti-Trump Resistance, COVID-19, and the death of George Floyd in 2020 catalyzed the intemperate demands of BLM, Greta Thunberg's climate hysteria, the 1619 Project, Defund the Police, Abolish ICE, and the transgender rights movement into the worldview of most Democrat elites. Former [so-called quote-unquote] president Joe Biden embedded these revolutionary ideas within the federal bureaucracy. Where earlier welfare states delivered benefits, Biden's welfare state became a crusader for economic, social, and cultural change. In Biden's vision, America would adopt a Net Zero economy. Mass immigration would produce economic and demographic growth. DEI and gender ideology would make America a more diverse and equitable place. And if people didn't like it, well, they would face censorship, cancellation, and prosecution. . .
. . . Now comes the hard part. You exorcise wokeness from government by tackling spending, for sure. But you also wrestle back control of the bureaucracy through hiring freezes, a return to the office, Schedule F, offers of early retirement, moving federal agencies outside the Beltway, and attrition.
Just don't expect it to be easy. The snafu over the OMB memo was a reminder that de-wokeifying the government isn't a matter of snapping one's fingers. The federal workforce backs Democrats both politically and financially. Powerful interests are invested in the status quo. The response to the spending freeze revealed the extent of government dependence. Only careful planning, precise language, consistent messaging, and effective legislation will rein in the federal Leviathan. And wipe the smile off Schumer's face.
Continetti makes some good points. But you have to not only engage in battle to win it, but to recognize the fact that we are not only in a battle, but that it is indeed an existential struggle between those of us who want to restore sanity to preserve whatever chance the next generation has of a real future and the Democrat/Left who want to enslave and/or eradicate us to satiate their perverse nightmare vision of what the world should look like.
By Trump mentioning DEI in this incident, he at a minimum puts it out there in the public consciousness. Then couple it with the open borders insanity and the wildfires and suddenly the narrative and who controls it starts to shift.
And this of course brings us to the ongoing confirmation hearings for Trump's cabinet picks, which the Left hope to turn into struggle sessions and then torpedo his picks. Especially those they view as traitors like RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. Both of them, along with stalwart Kash Patel managed to hold their own and even expose their inquisitors for their hypocrisies and bullshit.
"In his hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, FBI Director-designate Kash Patel put on a clinic in dispelling the vicious smears and lies perpetuated against him in recent months — and demonstrated exactly why President Trump nominated him to reform the FBI and make our communities safer.
“I have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the FBI — so let’s ask them,” Patel fired back after lies from Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) about his record supporting law enforcement.
Director of National Intelligence-designate Tulsi Gabbard’s appearance before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was equally as impressive. After enduring months of outrageous lies about her patriotism, credentials, and allegiance, Gabbard made clear where she stands: on the side of Americans demanding an end to the politicization of the intelligence community.
“[My opponents are] accusing me of being Trump’s puppet, Putin’s puppet, Assad’s puppet, a guru’s puppet, Modi’s puppet … The fact is what truly unsettles my political opponents is I refuse to be their puppet,” Gabbard said in her powerful opening statement.
In his second hearing in as many days, Secretary of Health and Human Services-designate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., doubled down on his commitment to ending the chronic disease epidemic, restoring transparency to public health, and improving health care for Americans as he implements President Trump’s agenda.
“All vaccines are dropping because people don’t believe the government anymore — [and] I am going to RESTORE trust,” Kennedy said.
President Trump has nominated the most qualified cabinet in modern history, and it’s time for the Senate to finish the job of confirming them.
And when speaking of the status quo, there are quite a few RINOs that want to see Trump and perhaps the greatest political movement in American history hat he engendered destroyed. Because the cause of American restoration stands in direct opposition to their making a profit off of its dissolution.
On a positive note, Doug Bugrum has been confirmed to head up the interior dept. and Chris Wright's nomination as Energy Secretary has advanced. These are biggies as they will be on the cutting edge of our drive to restore and expand our Fossil Fuel exploration and exploitation.
On a more reflective and somewhat somber note, In light of the fact that this past Monay was International Holocaust Rememberance Day, Daniel Greenfield has a sobering essay about what we've learned and more o his point, what we have yet to or refuse to learn.
What death ought to teach us is how to live. And how to survive in the face of certain death. The greatest challenge for the Jewish people remains complacency in the face of evil. If that is to change, the momentum will not come from leaders or organizations, but from individuals who see the threat. Death, no matter how vast or brutal, alone will not change complacency into awakening. To wake up, we must remember who we are. That is what Zionism at its best did by allowing us to imagine ourselves as more than the fallen state we had been reduced to. The Holocaust could not change who we are. Only we can change ourselves.
Make Never Again, NEVER... AGAIN, for real.
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